More generally, a tankie is someone who tends to support "militant opposition to capitalism", and a more modern online variation, which means "something like 'a self-proclaimed communist who indulges in conspiracy theories and whose rhetoric is largely performative.'" He was critical of both uses.[21] The Intercept journalist Roane Carey identified the "key element in the tankie mindset [as] the simple-minded assumption that only the United States can be imperialist, and thus any country that opposes the U.S. must be supported."[22]
Tankies on lemmy.ml and hexbear tend to support all authoritarian communists from Stalin to Mao. They defend Russia and hate Ukraine. They defend Hamas (not just supporting Palestinian civilians but the Hamas organization too). They defend everything China does. They deny the existence of many of the atrocities committed by any country in opposition to the US.
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mysticpickle@lemmy.ca · 76 pts · 2y
luves2spooge@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 2y
What's a "tankie" instance?
odium@programming.dev · 30 pts · 2y
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tankie
Tankies on lemmy.ml and hexbear tend to support all authoritarian communists from Stalin to Mao. They defend Russia and hate Ukraine. They defend Hamas (not just supporting Palestinian civilians but the Hamas organization too). They defend everything China does. They deny the existence of many of the atrocities committed by any country in opposition to the US.
luves2spooge@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 2y
Thanks for the explanation. I'd never heard it before and assumed it was a lemmy thing.
Telodzrum@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 2y
goat@sh.itjust.works · 12 pts · 2y
Hexbear, lemmy.ml and lemmygrad are the main Tankie instances
rustyfish@lemmy.world · 23 pts · 2y
Ah! Classic.
r3df0x@7.62x54r.ru · 14 pts · 2y
Tankies have historically opposed porn for being harmful to people and probably considered it a form of bourgeois hedonism or decadence.
goat@sh.itjust.works · 16 pts · 2y
they love hentai though
Someonelol@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 8 pts · 2y
They're hypocrites if not rabid anti US imperialists.
YeetPics@mander.xyz · 14 pts · 2y
Their moral stance was manufactured, don't think for a second any of these dishonest pricks believe their own lies.
workerONE@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 2y
What happened? Just looks like an accusation
goat@sh.itjust.works · 12 pts · 2y
couldn't find any evidence of them defending CP, that's an accusation from the tankies there.
But here's the context for the transphobia https://sh.itjust.works/post/23147589?scrollToComments=true
workerONE@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 2y
Yeah that's crazy but there's lots of crazy people in this world.
Someonelol@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 7 pts · 2y
TexMexBazooka@lemm.ee · 6 pts · 2y
Ah good, let them work out their differences and the adults will continue on unaffected
h3mlocke@lemm.ee · 4 pts · 2y